On Listening

When I ask you to listen to me and you start by giving advice, you have not done what I…

Ralph Roughton

Thinking about Faithfulness

In 1986 I was a mother of young children, struggling, with my husband, to make ends meet on his salary…

Susan Corson-Finnerty

Contentious and divisive

I have read many articles in Friends Journal over the years, but the article “Misunderstanding Quaker Faith and Practice” (FJ…

Bob Holden

The Nature of God

Where does the concept of God come from? We humans, as a sentient, introspective, inquisitive species, seek out answers to…

Steve Angell

A Christian Vision of the Earth

We are by nature Earth creatures, lifted from the mud of the ground and stirred to life by the breath…

Ellen M. Ross

Managing Conflict and Natural Resources through Good Clerking: The Legacy of Gilbert F. White

Gilbert Fowler White, one of the world’s foremost geographers and a member of the Religious Society of Friends, died in…

Robert E. Hinshaw

Elias Hicks, Environmentalist

Elias Hicks is best known among Friends as the man for whom one branch of Quakers was named following the…

Paul Buckley

The God Within: A Jewish Refugee’s Path to Quakers Perspective

According to Quakers, God is present in everyone. I first learned the great truth of this saying in a time…

France Pruitt

The Liberation of Nathan Swift

On an April day in 1839, a young Quaker farmer was out with his plowhorse working the family fields in…

Daniel Jenkins

Giving Attention to Our Leadings

The most precious gift Friends have to offer is our worship and the leadings that come from it. Yet this…

Shirley Dodson

Recognizing that of God in each other

I was distressed by Marty Grundy’s review of Godless for God’s Sake (FJ Nov. 2006). I hear echoes of 1827…

Susan Furry

Journeying in Darkness

When I was in the second grade I received a Bible, a gift from my Sunday school. In the New…

Melody Brazo

Could Any Friend Really Understand what It Feels Like for a Quaker Mom to have a Child who Is a Soldier?

Though I grew up and then served as pastor in a different denomination, I’ve been a lifelong pacifist, culminating in…

Allyson Platt

Sidewalk Worship

For Quakers, 2003 was a year of protest and political activism. Understandably, the vast majority of it focused on events…

John Helding

Friends and the Interfaith Peace Movement

Our country and the world were shaken to the core by the events of September 11, 2001. In response, we…

Anthony Manousos

Strengthening Interfaith Connections Locally

My experiences visiting and living abroad have been a major influence on what I hope, as a Quaker, to emphasize…

Judith Brown

Tom Louderback on Quakers and Capitalism

Capitalism is supposed to be an economic system with checks and balances, like democracy, and we…
Steven Davison on Speaking with Spiritual Authority

Thank you, Peter, for this ministry. I share your concern. In fact, Pendle Hill just published…
Ron Braithwaite on Hoopes Sentenced to More Than Two Years in Prison for Assaulting an ICE Agent

At the actual sentencing, Jacob was sentenced to 30 months at the Sheridan, Oregon Federal Minimum…
Kevin Johnson on Hoopes Sentenced to More Than Two Years in Prison for Assaulting an ICE Agent

I would have hoped that Friends would refrain from violent protests in these difficult days. Friends…